food safety

(COMMONDREAMS) Hundreds of thousands have signed petitions calling on the U.S.

(ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — Protecting the Dakota Access Pipeline has proved  an expensive undertaking for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (DES), the government agency overseeing law enforcement at the contested construction site.

(ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — It didn’t take long after the National Guard was activated in North Dakota for militarized law enforcement to descend upon the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

(ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — On Friday, a federal court sided with Energy Transfer Partners, allowing the company to continue construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The ruling came after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe attempted to halt the pipeline’s construction through the justice system because they claimed it would violate federal laws and jeopardize their water supply.

Energy Transfer Partners’ PAC spent over $869,000 in the 2014 and 2016 federal election cycles, but CEO Kelcy Warren has spent far more influencing politics at the state level in Texas.

(ANTIMEDIA) Hundreds of kilos of cocaine were found in a Coca-Cola plant in France last Friday, making the seizure of the drug one of the largest ever on French soil.

“It’s not a matter of if the pipeline breaks,” Golden Globe-nominated actress Shailene Woodley tells MintPress. “It’s a matter of when. As we know, all pipelines break.”

(ANTIMEDIA) McDonald’s, a company reviled as of late for its use of unhealthy ingredients, has decided to change course. Kind of.
In its latest marketing ploy to prove it is more than a chemical mill masquerading as a restaurant, McDonald’s has launched a new Happy Meal toy: a pedometer.

According to an experienced reporter on Palestine, 50 percent of the water to a city of 40,000 people has been cut off during Ramadan, a time “when people need to have access to food and water more than any other time.”

(MINTPRESS) Jerusalem — Israel is limiting access to water in Palestine, a long-standing practice that’s only intensified during the holy month of Ramadan, when access to water becomes even more important than usual.

(ANTIMEDIA) Preparations by various cogs of the national security complex, including FEMA, indicate a coming worldwide food shortage — and a resulting crisis marked by extreme civil unrest around the globe.